Essay by Ed Quillen
Ku Klux Klan – April 2003 – Colorado Central Magazine
MY FATHER often commented, in the course of some discussion or another, that “back in the ’20s, the Klan pretty much ran Colorado.” When I was in college, a friend who grew up in Denver’s southern suburbs had discovered that the flagpole at the old Englewood High School building (by then converted to a junior high) still bore a plaque stating that it had been donated by patriotic local Klansmen in the 1920s.
